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The Coronavirus, God and Evil
It’s not the end of the world. But with the coronavirus running rampant, you could be forgiven for thinking so. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse symbolically portray the four events that will occur before the end of the world – plague, deat…
Is It Over Yet?
During recent weeks we have witnessed often abusive gatherings in the United States and Spain demanding that covid-19 restrictions be lifted. Flags are flown, anthems are sung, slogans are cheered, all in an effort to show that quarantine is a violation o…
Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism and Closed Borders in the Covid-19 Era
For some years now there has been a flourishing debate between those who advocate for a more open-bordered world and those who want nations to have more powers to restrict border crossings. Sometimes these different sides are given names, such as “g…
The United States and the World Health Organization
In April 2020 U.S. President Donald Trump began to lash out at the World Health Organization, blaming it for what he claimed were missteps, failures, and prevarications in its handling of the coronavirus pandemic. On April 14 he announced that U.S. fundin…
Boredom and the Lockdown
In 1989, the Russian-American poet Joseph Brodsky addressed the eager graduands of Dartmouth College. It wasn’t your usual commencement speech: ‘If you find all this gloomy,’ he said of his remarks, ‘you don’t know what gloom…
What can archaeology do to help fight pandemic diseases?
“Not much,” might be one’s first reaction to this essay’s title question. Archaeologists are not exactly first responders. We are, if anything, last responders. And yet surprisingly, archaeology is not as odd a source of insights a…
Frost in Springtime: Seeing features on Mars
Astronomy magazine has an article in the May 2020 issue on the “Mountains of Mitchell.” The author, Thomas Dobbins[1], gives a fascinating history of observations of Mars by Ormsby Mitchel, who built a refractor telescope at the Cincinnati Obs…
It’s Time to Rediscover Bioethics
One of the terrible ironies of life is that ethics blooms in times of disaster. With the corona virus sweeping through the world, bioethics has moved to center stage. In high-income countries such as Italy and Spain, tough decisions have had to be made ab…
Our Experience of Time in the Time of Coronavirus Lockdown
The change from our lives BC (before coronavirus) to the lockdown most of us around the world are currently experiencing was dramatic and sudden. Many began working from home, often while also juggling the demands of home-schooling their children. Others …
Globalisation and the Corona Virus
The Covid-19 pandemic underscores an already-existing, more general tension in our current world-system. On the one hand, disease – like capital – is now fully globalised; it knows no boundaries, and ruthlessly weaves its way through networks …
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Creating and Supporting a Harassment- and Assault-Free Field School
When Kathryn Clancy and colleagues published the results of their SAFE survey, many of us who conduct field research were not surprised by the numbers.…
A new era for the American Political Science Review
We are honored to officially start our editorship of the American Political Science Review. We do so with great excitement, but also with some solemnity.…
Q&A with Wearable Technologies Associate Editor: Peter B. Shull
Associate Professor Peter B. Shull of Shanghai Jiao Tong University,answers our questions about his work and Cambridge University Press’s new journal Wearable Technologies
On the Cover of HPL: Laser-system model for enhanced operational performance and flexibility on OMEGA EP
The ability of high-energy laser systems to provide complex laser pulse shapes has growing importance in many research disciplines such as laser fusion, high-energy-density physics, laboratory astrophysics, and laser conditioning of optical materials.&hel…
Q&A with Prof. Stefano Camera, Physics and Astronomy Chief Editor for Experimental Results
What is your current job title both within Experimental Results and outside of the journal? Where are you based in the world?…
On the Front Line: COVID-19 Whistleblowers in China, the USA and Europe
Whistleblowers have become essential watchdogs during the COVID-19 pandemic. In my recent article in the European Journal of Risk Regulation I discuss the main whistleblowing cases in China, the USA and Europe showing how workers, especially medical worke…
2019 Gordon E. Pike JMR Paper of the Year awarded
I am pleased to announce that the 2019 Gordon E. Pike JMR Paper of the Year, recognizing excellence in advancing materials knowledge through written scholarship, was recently awarded by the Materials Research Society (MRS).…
The pitfalls of video calls (and how to avoid them like a pro)
Let’s face it – stepping (sitting) in front of a camera has become a staple component of working from home during the global pandemic.…
Another Day, Another Gas Leak: Business and Human Rights in India
The recent gas leak from the LG polymer gas plant has wreaked havoc in the town of Visakhapatnam in India. A toxic gas – styrene – leaked at around 3 am on May 7 from LG Polymer, a South-Korean-owned local plastic-manufacturing plant.…
The regional politics of austerity after the Great Recession: What lessons can we learn from Italy and Spain?
The world is currently facing the most serious health crisis in more than a century. While virtually all countries have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, there is some variation in the spread of the virus and the extent to which it has disrupted soc…
Batchelor Prize 2020
Congratulations to Alexander J. Smits on being awarded the 2020 Batchelor Prize ‘for seminal contributions to our understanding of the structure of wall turbulence at very large Reynolds and Mach numbers, especially through the design of innovative …
Theological Roundtable: The Responsibility of Theologians and Scholars of Religion to Confront Genocide
A quarter of a century has passed since the 1994 Rwandan genocide and the 1995 genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The anniversaries of these tragedies beckon us to reflect on the responsibility of theologians, scholars of religion, and religious educator…